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to sixty-four years old, more than fifty per cent have jobs.
In general, working women have had more education then those who stay at home. Of those who work,
thirty-two per cent have attended college, compared with twenty per cent of those who do not have jobs.
Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work, and eight per cent took a vacation a way
from home during the past year. Much of their traveling was by air.
These figures come from a report which was written for advertisers. The report gives advertisers a new
picture of women today. For instance, it tells advertisers that fifty-one per cent of all American women have
traveled by air-along with fifty-nine per cent of all American men.
The lesson for American business is that many women now have other interests in addition to their homes.
They like advertisements which show women in office, planes, and cars.
B. to convince women that they should spend more time at home
C. to convince women that they should spend more time at work
D. to supply information which might be useful
B. is unfavorable
C. is not stated in this selection
D. is approving (支持的)
B. advertising agencies responsible for encouraging people to buy
C. travel agencies D. accountants (会计师)
B. 18% of working women took a vacation away from home last year.
C. 32% of working women have college education.
D. 80% of working women drive a car to work.
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试题【阅读理解。 Many American women are earning money outside their homes today. Among】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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been equipped with seat belts. (These are also called safety belts.) Mary studies of automobile accidents
have shown that safety belts can save lives. One study showed that forty percent of those killed in auto
accidents could have been saved if they had been wearing seat belts.
Unfortunately belts are worn only by a small percentage of drivers and passengers-about fifteen percent
in cities, and only nine percent in small towns. And safety belts cannot protect people who do not wear them.
In order to find out what kinds of people do wear seat belts a study was made in several cities of the
United States. The following facts were learned about those who use their safety belts:
1. They do not smoke while driving.
2. They have had more education than non-users.
3. They know someone who was injured(but not killed)in an automobile accident.
Advertisements based on these facts have been printed in newspapers and magazines in order to teach
people the importance of using seat belts. But these advertisements have not helped much. Some people
believe there should be a law requiring drivers and passengers to use safety belts. In Australia, where there
is such a law, deaths in auto accidents have decreased twenty-four percent.
B. accidents involving cars
C. safety belts for drivers and passengers
D. parking problems
B. the importance of seat belts is advertised in newspapers
C. few people use seat belts and magazines
D. a law requires drivers and passengers to use seat belts
B. are less likely to wear seat belts than those who live in cities
C. ten to favor the passing of a law to require the use of seat belts
D. often wear seat belts
B. ten percent
C. fifteen percent
D. twenty-four percent
two or 2 more. However, cars are used for 3 pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.
Cars are used for 4 . They are 5 to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get
to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their 6 .
Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.
Sometimes small children must be driven to 7 . In some cities school buses are used only when children
live more than a mile 8 the school. When the children are too young to walk 9 far, their mothers take their
mothers take 10 driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and the
neighbors" children 11 . 12 mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and 13 . This is 14
forming a car pool. Men also 15 car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place 16 they
all work.
More car pools should be formed in order to put 17 automobiles on the road and to use 18 gasoline
(汽油). 19 is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven.
Something will have to be 20 about the use of cars.
( )1. A. with | B. without B. quite B. other than B. travel B. carried B. bags B. farm B. between B. that B. notice B. as well as B. another B. on and on B. taken B. form B. which B. much B. little B. Smoking B. done | C. having C. even C. rather than C. trip C. driven C. products C. home C. from C. these C. time C. both C. others C. so on C. given C. take C. where C. fewer C. fewer C. Waiting C. gone | D. owning D. very D. less than D. business D. bought D. books D. house D. away D. those D. turns D. as well D. the other D. go on D. made D. know D. what D. many D. least D. Parking D. known |
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| For a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers (慢跑的人). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. "Come on!" My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. "You"ll feel great." Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. I"m not alone in my opinion. First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding (沉重的脚步) ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn"t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me. Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn"t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, "I love being out there with just my thoughts" Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt. And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn"t just the first week-it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn"t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog? I don"t jog any more, and I don"t think I ever will. I"m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I"m getting exercise, and I"m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I"ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape. | |||
| 1. From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer"s neighborhood ______. | |||
| A. jogging became very popular B. people jogged only during the daytime C. Alex organized an army of joggers D. jogging provided a chance to get together | |||
| 2. The underlined word "them" (Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____. | |||
| A. heart attacks B. back problems C. hundreds of people D. physical weaknesses | |||
| 3. From the writer"s experience, we can conclude that______. | |||
| A. jogging can help people keep fit B. many physical problems result from jogging C. not everyone enjoys jogging D. jogging makes people feel greater | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world except in the Arctic areas. Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop. There are more than 20,000 kinds of bees. But only honey bees make enough honey for people to use. Honeybees are highly-organized social insects. They work together in a group, called a colony (群体). Each colony lives in a hive (蜂房). It contains one queen bee -- she lays all the eggs from which the members of the colony come. Each colony has only a few hundred males, called drones. The majority of all bees in a colony are workers, which are all females. Bees even have a special stomach, called a honey stomach, which is used to store sweet fluid that the bees gather from flowers. Bees also have long hairs on their body and legs. These hairs capture pollen (花粉) as bees go from flower to flower. Some of the pollen is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower. This is how many plants are fertilized. Pollen is the reproductive material of plants. Many important agricultural crops depend on bees for fertilization. Inside their hives, bees store sweet liquid from flowers and pollen as well. They may even gather sweet liquid from some other kinds of insects. These kinds of sweet liquid are also stored in the hive. Bees make honey through a process. They add liquid from their own mouths to sweet liquid into simple sugar. As the honey is stored, it dries. It becomes thicker and darker. Although bees are often thought of as honey makers, they provide a surprising number of products. Also, their greatest economic value is in fertilizing crops-not in making honey. | |||
| 1.The passage is mainly about _____. | |||
| A. bees and their colony B. the way for bees to pass pollen C. bees and agriculture D. the process for bees to make honey | |||
| 2.Honeybees are social insects because _____. | |||
| A. they work in groups B. there is queen bee in every colony C. they live in a hive D. each of them does the same job | |||
| 3.The most valuable thing honeybees do for people is in _____. | |||
| A. making honey B. fertilizing crops C. making flowers grow better D. producing pollen | |||
| 4.The word "fertilize" in the sentence "This is how many plants are fertilized. " probably means " _____". | |||
A. to make plants strong and productive | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Honesty may well be the policy, but it often deserts us when no one is watching, psychologists report today. Experiments with an honesty box to collect payments for hot drinks show that people are better at paying up when under the gaze (注视) of a pair of eyes. The surprise was that the eyes were not real, but photographed. Researchers at Newcastle University set up the experiment in secret. They attached a poster to a cupboard of mugs above an-honesty box alongside a kettle with tea, coffee and milk. Over 10 weeks, they alternated each week between images of eyes and pictures of flowers. Dr. Bateson, a behavioral biologist and leader of the study, said that even though the eyes were not real they still seemed to make people behave more honestly. They effect may arise from behavioral characteristics that developed as early humans formed social groups that increased their chances of survival. Individuals had to co-operate for the good of the group, rather than act selfishly. "If nobody is watching us it is in our interests to behave selfishly. But when we think we"re being watched we should behave better, so people see us as co-operative and behave the same way towards us," Dr. Bateson said. "We thought we"d get a slight effect with eyes, but it was quite striking how much difference they made. Even at a subconscious level, it seems people respond to eyes, and that might be because eyes send a strong biological signal we have evolved to respond to." The finding, which researchers believe sheds light on our evolutionary past, could be turned to practical use. The psychologists say images of eyes could promote ticket sales on public transport and improve monitor systems to prevent antisocial behavior. | |||
| 1. This passage is mainly about ______. | |||
| A. the policy of honesty B. an honesty box to collect money C. evolution on honesty D. an experiment on honesty | |||
| 2. The reason for doing the experiment secretly is that the researchers ______. | |||
| A. wanted to get a comparatively more exact result B. had known they wanted to do something illegally C. meant to get the co-operation of their colleagues D. intended to sell the hot drinks at a higher price | |||
| 3. People behave honestly under watchful gaze of eyes because ______. | |||
| A. they want to leave a good impression B. they fear to be laughed at by others C. they"ve got the nature through evolution D. they take the photo for a real pair of eyes | |||
| 4. The underlined phrase " sheds light on" in the last paragraph means _____. | |||
| A. causes somebody to become cheerful B. makes something easier to understand C. comes upon something by accident D. brings something into the broad daylight |